Mobile Tech

So you have technology in your office that is at least five years old (if not older) and saved $5,000? Is it best to replace everything or replace some items and upgrade or keep others? The answer is, it depends.

Attorney at Work has posted their Friday Five article for Friday October 7, 2011 and it’s all about tablets and Tablet Love. While much of the information is for those that love the iPad, I’ve contributed for those of us that prefer an alternative. In my case, it’s my Acer Iconia Tab A500 tablet running Android Honeycomb 3.2.

Here in Wisconsin, there’s been discussion about about NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices. NAS devices are a great way to expand storage, make files accessible across the network, backup and some even provide access to their files over the internet. If you would like to access your files from your network or the web and if you already have one or several external hard drives (up to 4), one option is to use a Pogoplug device.

I’m a big fan of ioSafe external hard drives for data backup and protection from fire, water or impact (go ahead, crush it with a tank). You can check out videos of their drives being torched, dunked, crushed by a tank at the links below the break. However, weighing in at 15lbs, no one would call their previous products portable. That’s all changed with the introduction of their ioSafe Rugged Portable line of drives at his years Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV..

Smarter Technology has a list of 10 apps to help you with being “green.” They vary in price from free to $5.99 and cover a range of different uses including iRecycle, a free app that can help you figure out where to dispose of , well, hard to dispose of things:

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